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Hardware Industry

PCIe 5.0 will be ready before PCIe 4.0 can launch

Co-existence is almost essential

By Isaiah Mayersen, January 20, 2019, 10:21 AM

Tech Culture Electronics

FDA: If youth e-cigarette use doesn't decline, it will be banned

The multi-billion dollar business needs to reform quickly to survive

By Isaiah Mayersen, January 20, 2019, 9:55 AM

Hardware

Intel is acting like it cares more about GPUs than CPUs, and that's a good thing

Intel's discrete GPUs are coming, should we expect a strong platform at launch?

By Isaiah Mayersen, January 19, 2019, 1:41 PM 25 comments

The Web

Amazon stats show 50,000 SMBs on its platform exceeded half a million in sales last year

Ecommerce can be a gold mine for small businesses

By Isaiah Mayersen, January 19, 2019, 12:04 PM

Car Tech

Ford is planning an electric F-150 pickup truck with a focus on performance

"We're going to be electrifying the F-Series - battery electric and hybrid."

By Isaiah Mayersen, January 19, 2019, 7:53 AM 4 comments

The Web

The EU's contentious 'Link Tax' rejected again after 11 member states disapprove

Drafters have until the end of next month to reword the regulations

By Cal Jeffrey, January 18, 2019, 5:45 PM 7 comments

Industry Mobile

Verizon to offer free spam and robocall protection starting in March

The service previously cost $2.99 per month

By Shawn Knight, January 18, 2019, 5:03 PM 7 comments

Industry

Amazon created a 'vest' that alerts robots to a human's presence

The wearable is intended to supplement the machine's existing obstacle avoidance AI when workers are around

By Cal Jeffrey, January 18, 2019, 4:24 PM 7 comments

Blog The Web

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Industry

Privacy advocate files GDPR complaints against Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and others

They allegedly failed to comply with the 'Right to Access'

By Cohen Coberly, January 18, 2019, 3:45 PM

Gaming

Quake II looks better than ever with ray tracing

Real-time path tracing in Quake II using RTX

By Shawn Knight, January 18, 2019, 3:04 PM 22 comments

Gaming Industry

Korean video game firm Nexon is up for sale for $8.9 billion

Several big players are interested but will probably have to be backed by PEF investment

By Cal Jeffrey, January 18, 2019, 2:36 PM

Mobile Microsoft

Windows 10 Mobile support ends in December

Microsoft recommends moving to Android or iOS

By Shawn Knight, January 18, 2019, 1:17 PM 3 comments

Gaming Industry

NBA agrees to billion-dollar multi-year licensing extension with NBA 2K publisher

A slam dunk for sports fans

By Shawn Knight, January 18, 2019, 12:15 PM 4 comments

Car Tech Industry

Digital license plates are heading to Michigan

Further digitizing our lives

By Shawn Knight, January 18, 2019, 11:25 AM 14 comments

Google

AT&T returns as a YouTube advertiser marking the end of the "adpocalypse"

January might be a slow month, but big ad spending is on the horizon

By Greg Synek, January 18, 2019, 9:26 AM 6 comments

Mobile The Web

Long-running Twitter bug could have exposed your private tweets

Twitter's now fixed it - over four years later

By Rob Thubron, January 18, 2019, 8:55 AM

Gaming Industry

Fortnite made $2.4 billion in 2018 as free-to-play and mobile games dominated the market

And PUBG was the highest-earning premium game

By Rob Thubron, January 18, 2019, 7:59 AM 8 comments

Car Tech Industry

Tesla is cutting 7 percent of its workforce, says road ahead is "very difficult"

As it increases Model 3 production

By Rob Thubron, January 18, 2019, 7:33 AM 22 comments

Hardware

Facebook tells employees to remove their 5-star Portal reviews from Amazon

Did they imagine it wasn't against the rules?

By Rob Thubron, January 18, 2019, 7:02 AM

Radeon RX 570 vs. RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs. GTX 1060 6GB

FEATURE By Steven Walton, January 18, 2019, 6:01 AM TechSpot Hardware

It's time to evaluate the Radeon RX 570 all over again, but this time the contenders will be the RX 580 and the GeForce GTX 1060 on 3GB and 6GB flavors. We're going to put all these mainstream GPUs head to head in 36 games at 1080p and 1440p to see which comes out on top in terms of performance and value.